Meaning of ACCESS TIME

Pronunciation:

'akses tIm

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WordNet Dictionary

Definition:

[n] (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead"

The average time interval between a storage peripheral (usually a disk drive or semiconductor memory) receiving a request to read or write a certain location and returning the value read or completing the write.